Contribute: Branch Policy

For now, there are 5 types of branches:

• main: the current stable version
• dev: the current development version
• ms-*: Development branch for new developments (e.g., ms-analysis)
• release-*: Branch for planned releases (e.g., release-v0.1)
• issue-*: Branches for implementing enhancement features / fixing bugs (e.g., issue-1337)

Workflow

• On issue completion
  • Merge into respective milestone branch
  • Remove issue branch
• On milestone completion
  • Merge into current release branch
  • Remove milestone branch
• On release
  • Merge release branch into dev
  • Merge dev into main
  • Tag version
  • Create release